ASSASSIN IN CINEMA.
MANAGER FATALLY SHOT. DEED BEHIND THE SCREEN. (Received January 22, G. 5 p.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 21. While 3000 spectators were watching a murder drama on the screen in the Mercedes Film Palace tho manager, Herr Schmoller, was actually murdered in a sound-proof room behind the screen. The assailant decamped with tho evening's takings. He had shot his victim behind steel-coated doors which deadened the noise.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20779, 23 January 1931, Page 11
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